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Jacob Prepares to Leave Laban
Genesis 31:1-16
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And he heareth the words of Laban's sons, saying, `Jacob hath taken all that our father hath; yea, from that which our father hath, he hath made all this honour;'
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and Jacob seeth the face of Laban, and lo, it is not with him as heretofore.
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And Jehovah saith unto Jacob, `Turn back unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I am with thee.'
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And Jacob sendeth and calleth for Rachel and for Leah to the field unto his flock;
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and saith to them, `I am beholding your father's face--that it is not towards me as heretofore, and the God of my father hath been with me,
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and ye--ye have known that with all my power I have served your father,
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and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.
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`If he say thus: The speckled are thy hire, then bare all the flock speckled ones; and if he say thus: The ring-streaked are thy hire, then bare all the flock ring-streaked;
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and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.
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`And it cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream, and lo, the he-goats, which are going up on the flock, are ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled;
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and the messenger of God saith unto me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here am I.
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`And He saith, Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see--all the he-goats which are going up on the flock are ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee;
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I am the God of Bethel where thou hast anointed a standing pillar, where thou hast vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and turn back unto the land of thy birth.'
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And Rachel answereth--Leah also--and saith to him, `Have we yet a portion and inheritance in the house of our father?
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have we not been reckoned strangers to him? for he hath sold us, and he also utterly consumeth our money;
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for all the wealth which God hath taken away from our father, it is ours, and our children's; and now, all that God hath said unto thee--do.'
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